24th Apr 2020 - 07:46
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If you are one of the millions in the UK now working from home, you’ve probably become better acquainted than normal with the contents of your fridge and food cupboard. If so, then you may appreciate even more our weekly supply of weird and wonderful food facts.
* When Winston Churchill visited the US during Prohibition, he got a doctor’s prescription for an unlimited supply of alcohol.
* The mysterious green code that begins all the Matrix movies is in fact recipes for sushi.
* Britain’s share of the cost of funding the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland each year is the same as what Britons spend on peanuts.
* The heaviest pumpkin ever measured weighed the same as a standard family saloon car.
* In 1087, William the Conqueror got too fat to ride his horse, so he went on an alcohol-only diet and died later that year.